So many, many whackos throughout the history of religion have taken one small word from holy scripture and then built an entire theology on it, and I believe that's what is happening here.
They were also published with an accompanying small book entitled, A description of a set of prints of scripture history, which was also available in different bindings.
On Monday, the police said, Mr. Ubiles set fire to 11 mezuzot — small cases containing Scripture that many Jews affix to their door frames — at a public-housing complex on Taylor Street in Williamsburg's heavily Hasidic South Side.
John is no small figure in scripture.
In an adjoining small cell, the sacred scripture is placed; the importance of this scripture is that it has been scripted with gold dust and the crushed bone powder of a divine Lama.
On the sidewalk outside the hospital, two youths were operating a stand in the name of the Chabad-Lubavitch organization of Hasidic Jews, offering male passers-by the opportunity to put on tefillin, the small leather boxes containing scripture verses, and to recite psalms.
(When I asked Bob Adams about Xemu, he said, "A small fraction of our scriptures are confidential, and I don't want to allude to something confidential").
While scriptural interpretation may seem like a remote and innocuous activity, close textual study of Jewish and Christian scripture played no small role in loosening the Church's domination on the intellectual and cultural life of Europe, and paving the way for unfettered secular thought.
In its small-group curriculum, it quotes scripture to argue that God wants you to be healthy, and provides Bible verse and discussion themes around the spiritual aspects of long-term change: discipline, helping others, faith.
I guessed right on boanthropy (the belief that one is a cow), wrong on vug (a cavity in a rock) and was off by one letter on phylactery (a small leather box containing Hebrew scriptures).
